Building better platforms with Azure, GitHub, Terraform and AI
This is a workshop/lab setup that I created; it is going to take you through a DevOps journey using Azure DevOps. From setting up your pipeline to deploying an application to your Azure Kubernetes cluster! This is also my contribution to this years Festive Tech Calendar – don’t forget to check out this content, its … Read more
In this blog post I am going to show how you can deploy Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) with Application Gateway Ingress using Terraform; this include Virtual Network, Log Analytics and Azure Kubernetes Service, once created – will show how to deploy a sample application into the newly created AKS cluster What is Azure Kubernetes Service … Read more
Deploying Terraform to Azure using a module and notice a warning similar to the below? In this blog post I will show how you can fix the warning “Module module.storageaccount does not declare a provider named azurerm.storageaccount.If you wish to specify a provider configuration for the module, add an entry for azurerm.storageaccount in the required_providers … Read more
Are you ready to Terraform? Are you ready to deploy to Azure via Pipelines as code? Then you are going to enjoy this blog post! I’ve blogged a lot recently about Azure DevOps and Terraform; both very relevant topics in Azure in relation to deploying IaC in a pipeline. This blog post; I am going … Read more
Deploying ARM Templates and want to deploy using Azure DevOps Pipelines? Lets have a look in this blog post on how to achieve this! What is Azure DevOps? Deploying resources already into Azure; you probably already have came across using Azure DevOps, it is a hosted service by Microsoft that provides an end-to-end DevOps toolchain … Read more
A quick blog post to show the fix I implemented in relation to receiving this error:- With the initial error of error: <nil> there wasn’t much further logging available. Here is the full output of log found under mic-* pod as part of aad-pod-identity The fix for this, is to add and deploy this .yaml … Read more
Using Terraform to deploy your Azure resources is becoming more and more popular; in some instances overtaking the use of ARM to deploy into Azure. I will show you in this blog how you can deploy your Azure Resources created in Terraform using Azure DevOps finishing with an example .yml pipeline. What is Azure DevOps? … Read more
I am going to show you how to create a Hub-Spoke network configuration with Azure Firewall using PowerShell. What is a Hub-Spoke network? Think of the Hub-Spoke as two different networks, network1 is hub, network2 is spoke. Network1 acts as the central point of connectivity and perimeter for your network where all traffic has to … Read more
Network Watcher Connection Monitor is a pretty cool service in Azure, ever need to monitor a Virtual machine but third-party extensions cannot be configured? Connection Monitor allows you to monitor Virtual Machines ports to ensure they’re still listening and reachable. How does it work? The connection is created from a Source Virtual Machine to your … Read more
You may have a requirement from time-to-time to provide a copy of the current Network Security Group(s) rulset within your Azure subscription, in this blog I will show you how this can be be done via PowerShell Lets have a look at a sample NSG created below I am looking this ruleset to be in … Read more